A Sabo-Yaba Chief Magistrates\u2019 Court in Lagos State on Thursday granted an application for an extension of remand of afrobeat singer, Seun Kuti, for additional four days.<\/p>\n
The Chief Magistrate, Mrs Adeola Olatubosun, extended Kuti\u2019s remand until May 22.<\/span><\/p>\n Mr Simon Lough (SAN), who led a police legal team to the court, had moved the application.<\/span><\/p>\n According to him, the extension is to allow further investigation into the case.<\/span><\/p>\n The News Agency of Nigeria reports that Kuti is charged with assaulting a police officer.<\/span><\/p>\n He allegedly committed the offence on May 13 on the Third Mainland Bridge, Lagos State.<\/span><\/p>\n The police charged him with slapping an inspector after driving dangerously on the bridge and deliberately blocking a moving police vehicle.<\/span><\/p>\n Kuti was arraigned on Tuesday during which the chief magistrate ordered his remand for 48 hours.<\/span><\/p>\n She, however, held that the defendant should be admitted to bail in the sum of one million Naira with two sureties in like sum, at the end of the 48-hour remand.<\/span><\/p>\n She said that one of the sureties must be a landlord within the jurisdiction of the court.<\/span><\/p>\n She had adjourned the case until May 22 for mention and directed the prosecutor to duplicate the case file and forward a copy to the state director of public prosecutions for advice.<\/span><\/p>\n NAN<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Sabo-Yaba Chief Magistrates\u2019 Court in Lagos State on Thursday granted an application for an extension of remand of afrobeat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1509,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-from-the-grassroots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1535"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1536,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1535\/revisions\/1536"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenewsnow.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}